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Oyo distributes school-support motorcycles and 72,000 notebooks

Oyo State flagged off motorcycle distribution for school-support and mobilisation officers and announced 72,000 learner notebooks under BESDA across its 33 local government areas. The source did not state the number of motorcycles.

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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde flagged off distribution of motorcycles to School Support Officers and School Mobilisation Officers across the state, Voice of Nigeria reported. The intervention also provides 72,000 notebooks for learners under the Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) project across all 33 local government areas.

The state’s education-intervention adviser separately said BESDA AF TESS had distributed 18,000 tablets to teachers and renovated 209 public primary schools. The report does not specify the period for those earlier outputs, the number of motorcycles, or the distribution by locality and beneficiary.

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Oyo education support programme distributions

Motorcycles for school officers and notebooks for learners reported by VON on 6 October.

Notebooks for learners under BESDA72000Across Oyo State’s 33 local government areas.
Motorcycles for School Support Officers and School Mobilisation Officers—Distribution flagged off; number not stated in source.
Tablets previously distributed to teachers under BESDA AF TESS18000Source says distributed in prior programme implementation; date period not specified.
Public primary schools renovated under the project209Statewide; source does not report the renovation completion dates.
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Counts come from VON’s report on the Oyo governor flagging off the distribution. The source places notebooks across 33 local government areas but does not state motorcycle quantities or beneficiary allocation.

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